Stuart Woods Apartments

Would not move here again. Would not recommend this place.
Pros: my apartment has more square footage than other apartments in the area of that price
Maintenance is reliable, trustworthy and friendly (even when there is a leak at 3am!) I feel like my neighbors (for the most part) are friendly and responsible. Park, paths, grounds are kept very nice.
You can walk to Duck Donuts, the bagel store, MOMS organic. Great bus system.
Cons: horrible workmanship inside the apartments– my kitchen has an inch long gap around the perimeter where the floor ends, before the cabinets begin. The craftsmanship of the cabinets in the kitchen is horrible.
Minimal hot water at any time of day. Small hot water tank.
Management does not take care of things that frustrate tenants — The neighbors below me have SIX cats (which breaks their lease and is illegal in Fairfax County) you can see them laying in the windows and ever since they have moved in the ENTIRE building smells like cat urine. In addition, these neighbors dispose of their trash and cat litter on their first floor porch on a regular basis. It is nasty! It is a HEALTH RISK. I have called to complain to management NUMEROUS times. Each time I call I am passed to a different person. Each time I am told «we will handle it» and nothing happens. I renewed my lease after management told me these tenants were moving out. BUT THEY DIDNT! I am at a loss as to what to do about this, which is why I am writing this review.
When I call the front office I never know who will be there, there seems to be different people working there every few months. I don’t know who is in charge because when I ask I am passed around. The «manager» never returns my calls.
The management has lots of money to spend on parties and activities for the tenants (which may be great for some) but personally I’d rather my rent DOESNT go towards these activities. Maybe it could go towards more relevant expenses like a nicer pool or work out facility.

This place isn’t that great. I lived there for a few years. I rented a 1 bedroom apartment. The only highlight of the Aparment was the closet is rather large. Other than that everything else sucks.
The walls are thin and you’ll hear everything.
I was unfortunate in that my upstairs neighbors was a family of gorillas. These animals would stomp and pound all hours of the day. They would on several occasions just throw trash and liquids over the balcony.
One time a roach crawled out of the ceiling vent, lo and behold the exterminators were there the next day in my upstairs neighbors apartment.
The grounds are terrible, it’s a muddy disgusting mess outside the sidewalks. Considering the fine example of tenants I described above, they are numerous, and they’re too lazy to pick up their dog’s shit as well. I even saw one woman rumaging through the trash one day, wtf?!
There is tons of shady foot traffic that passes thru as well. The traffic noises and honking can be heard all day from the street.
Avoid this place at all costs. It seems like every other month they are inside your place for some reason or another, why do they feel the need to constantly enter hour homes and perform random pointless inspections?
Another laughable thing is if you go month-​to-​month at the end of your lease, they jack the rates up to completely unreasonable levels.
God, I hated that place. I gave an extra star for the fact that the staff was pretty helpful, as well as the maintenance people. However, I should point out that the staff definitely came and went quite frequently.

Stuart Woods is great… if you like your car towed, stupid notices hung on your door every day, drug deals going down in the wide open, unexpected fees, & living around crazy people. The Herndon police don’t do anything because they get to live there for free.
I do NOT recommend living there. Pay the little bit extra and stay elsewhere.

Nice surroundings, prompt maintenance work, friendly staff. Carpets were dirty when I moved in but I was so anxious to move I let it go. Major problem… the dumpster doors are rarely closed, allowing overflow of trash to fly out. I actually printed signs to post on the dumpsters that read «please close the dumpster doors» and someone yanked them off 2 days later. The picnic grounds rarely are cleaned after large families cook out there. The problem with the roaches outlined by the other Unilocaler must stem from these filthy conditions.
A wonderful park side location, with a creek (Sugarland Run) cutting through the property, but the creek has trash in it that is never removed. I realize this is not the fault of the complex, but some coordination with the Fairfax County or Herndon Park Association to clean up the creek would be appreciated. There are very few park side locations in Reston/​Herndon (I had a major problem with Colvin Woods, so I will never rent from them). The grounds have gotten better over the last 2 years but for the price (extremely high raise in rent this past year), it could be better.